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How Can Friction Have Two Directions in Finding Tension?

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What Is the Minimum Initial Velocity to Roll Up a Carpet?

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Magnetic Field at a point due to two parallel wires

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Finding tension of a swinging mass

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Planar wave normally incident on dielectric boundary

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I have a problem where two stars are at a certain time r0 apart from

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Resistors/Battery Circuit solving. Maybe superposition

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Spring stretch for mass moving in circular path

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How Much Work is Done Moving an Object Against a Spring Force?

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Rigid Box and 3D Schrodinger equation

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Centre of mass Momentum problem-Two blocks

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A 4.4kg block is pushed along the ceiling

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Can a rope be perfectly horizontal during a tug-of-war?

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Calculating Power and Range of a Bullet

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Radial force on a particle with circular motion

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How Is Effective Weight Calculated in a Spinning Carnival Ride?

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Moment of Inertia? Potential and Kinetic Energy? Anybody awake?

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Collision in two dimensions problems

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Potential of a non-uniform charged rod

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Determine Mass of object for no motion on ramp

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Finding the differential equation for a circuit

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Time for a ball on string to travel around a pole.

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Solve F=ma Concept: Urgent Help Needed! Where Did I Go Wrong?

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Calculating Electricity Consumption: From KWhr to kW and Units

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Finding the distance traveled using Newton's laws and kinematics

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Can a Rocket Reach the Sound Barrier Without Breaking Internal Equipment?

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Maximum truck acceleration before toolbox slides

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How to calculate distance when there's a changing force?D:

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Why Do Different Sources Show Varying Electric Flux Equations?

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A strange kind of straight line kinematics with uniform acceleration.

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Constant Velocity Challenge Problem

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Speed of ice block on ramp with friction force

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Solving Box Motion with Applied Force

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Why F = mγy² doesn't give the right velocity on Planet X

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What is the velocity of a pendulum when impacted by another mass?

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How Does Hitting a Wall Affect Kinetic Energy?

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A rotating container injected with a liquid

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What are the equations for calculating equivalent resistance in a circuit?

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What is the Image Height for a Converging Lens and Diverging Lens System?

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Problem regarding refraction of light question

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Calculating the lifetime of a particle

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Max EMF in a Model AC Generator Coil

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Momentum of golf ball and basketball

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Work Required for Adiabatic Compression

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Mechanic about wood block, friction and pulley

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Mechanism that causes tension and normal force?

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Which Formulas Solve These Physics Problems?

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What Is the Angle Between Velocity Vector and Radius-Vector of Part A at 4RE?

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Cylinder, sphere and box pulled by hanging mass

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Weight Distribution: Solving for Tension in a Hawser System

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Object thrown upward at 5 m/s from 12 feet high

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A sled is being pulled accross horizontal, snow covered ground

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Time and height in a freefall problem

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How Do You Solve Orbital Mechanics Problems Involving Central Forces?

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Forces of a wrecking ball against a wall at rest.

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Calculating Time Dilation at Half the Speed of Light

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Finding kinetic energy after an elastic collision

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How Do You Solve a Modified Atwood Machine Problem?

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Find acceleration vector of a car travelling on a circular path

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Non-Uniform Distribution of Charge on a Rod

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Magnitude and angle of particle direction-

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Velocities and momentum after explosions

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Atoms of Julius Caesar in a Caesar Salad (seriously)

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Inelastic Collision: Threshold Energy

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Why Is My Calculated Velocity at the Swing's Apex Incorrect?

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Cart rolling into sand vs gravel using work-energy theorem

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Conservative forces and Mechanical Energy

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Tension of strings at different angles:

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Pottery wheel, angular acceleration, and required speed

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Solving Power Equation: Melting an Ice Cube

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Kinetic and Potential Energy with acceleration

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How Does Centrifugal Force Compare to Gravity in Car Cornering Dynamics?

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Grade 11 Physics, Need resources

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Solve Kinematic Equations for Automobile Braking

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Determining Orbital Period of a Planet

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Kinematic Equations (Constant Acceleration)

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Given Maximum Acceleration calculate angle θ where Fnet=0

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Tension in of string between two boxes with friction.

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Calculating Work Done by Friction in a Circular Track

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Rank the velocities of the balls

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Calculate Change in Momentum of 4.8 kg Mass Launched at 55°

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Force in nonuniform circular motion with linearly increasing speed

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Two Blocks Connected by a Massless String Over a Pulley

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Find B given distance and direction from vector A

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Electrostatics questions, parallel plates, force, field

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Baby caught after 15m fall: force, stopping distance and injury limits

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Tension and ball of mass problem

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Solving Work Needed to Pull Chain On Frictionless Table

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Determining the speed of the bullet after a collision

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Calculating area of a parallelogram defined by 2 vectors

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Force on pivot when a plank rotates from 60° to horizontal

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Explosion of firecracker on pond

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Thermodynamics/ideal gas question

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Conservation of angular momentum axis

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Torque on a current carrying coil with an applied frictional force?

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